Thursday, October 5, 8:00 PM EDT
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Born in NYC in 1938, Linda Dittmar grew up in British Mandate Palestine as it became Israel. She served two years in the IDF and attended the Hebrew University before coming to study in the US. With a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University (1970), she taught 20th century fiction and film at the University of Massachusetts for forty years. During those years she taught at Tel Aviv University, lectured at the University of Paris, and won several grants and prizes, including two Fulbright grants to India, the second as Distinguished Chair. Her academic publications include the books From Hanoi to Hollywood; the Vietnam War in American Film and Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism, including decades of service on Radical Teacher's editorial board. Her memoir, Tracing Homelands; Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging was first conceived at the William Joiner Center's writers workshops. It was subsequently supported by an artist prize from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and five month-long artist residencies, with an excerpt published in Consequence Volume 10. Now retired as Professor Emerita, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Martha Collins recently published her eleventh collection of poetry, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, fall 2022), and her fifth volume of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, Dreaming the Mountain by Tue Sy (Milkweed, 2023, with Nguyen Ba Chung). Her tenth book of poems, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; earlier books have won several awards, and include three focusing on race and racism (Admit One: An American Scrapbook, White Papers, Blue Front). Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin.
From the publisher: A raw and courageous memoir of the 1948 war and its aftermath and searing personal journey to uncover the suppressed traumas, facts, and myths that undergird the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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